As it announced Friday that it would return Jimmy Kimmel Live! to the air on its stations nationwide, Nexstar told its staff that the station group’s benching of the ABC late-night show was not “a violation of the First Amendment.”

In an internal memo sent out today by CEO Perry Sook and president Michael Biard to the station group’s employees, Nexstar revealed that “cooler heads” prevailed in the controversy over Kimmel’s on-air remarks about Donald Trump and his MAGA base’s response to the Charlie Kirk shooting. In addition, the executives offered a spirited defense of the decision to pull Live! off its affiliate stations on September 17.

“We also want to address questions raised about the First Amendment,” Sook and Biard wrote. “No one has an unlimited right to say whatev

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